Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.”

“[A mother] discovers with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.”

“People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'”

“I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.”

“In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people beli...”

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”